The announcement was made in the government’s 2024 budget, with roughly $9 million set aside for the early stages of planning and launching the medical school.
York University’s new medical school will be based in Vaughan, Ont., the province said and is to focus specifically on family physicians. The government says it will be the first medical school in the country with a mandate for family doctors.
The province has not yet announced details, like the number of undergraduate or graduate places it hopes to offer from the proposed Vaughan medical school.According to the province, the communities of York, Simcoe and Muskoka in particular are all struggling with shortages of family doctors.York University, the partner the province has chosen for the medical school, was under scrutiny for its finances just months ago.
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